Simulator slow-motion animations are now on?

Question

A while ago I was experimenting, trying to see if i could get navigation items to animate and scroll between each other.

I don't know if this is related but suddenly without touching the simulator options I'm getting this message Simulator slow-motion animations are now on and moving between views is very slow, like 3 seconds. This occurs with all animation effects.

Any idea what I need to do to stop this ?

As of Xcode 8.2.1 and simulator version 10.0, Slow Animations increases animation duration by a factor of 10. A 1 second animation will take 10 seconds with Slow Animations enabled. — wyu, May 11 '17 at 20:01
Probably to debug animations and watch them slowly to ensure they do exactly what they should — arshbot, Dec 20 '17 at 00:44
Go to emulator from above menu debug>slow animations (command + T) — Leap Hawk, Dec 27 '17 at 06:30

BoltClock · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-13T05:29:20.540

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The shortcut as of Xcode 6 is Command ⌘+T. This toggles it between on and off, so to turn it off just punch that combination.

edited Apr 13 '15 at 05:29

answered Dec 24 '11 at 12:33

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So you don' think that its something that will have affect on release code ? – Jules Dec 24 '11 at 12:46
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Could it be that if he's using a beta, he could have pressed shift 3 times and accidentally activated it? – CodaFi Dec 25 '11 at 07:44
@CodaFi: I didn't know about that! I'll have to try it. – BoltClock Dec 25 '11 at 11:15
I must admit, I hadn't heard about it either, but when I researched his problem, another thread on SO mentioned that beta simulator builds toggled that animation with a triple shift click. Later posts say it was disabled... – CodaFi Dec 26 '11 at 06:29
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This is triggered by triple-tapping Shift, but I occasionally see it triggered when I definitely haven't tapped Shift three times in a row without hitting other keys. – Zev Eisenberg Feb 02 '12 at 18:13
I triggered this by accident when validating field entry with strings like "'"''"'"'""'" which is a combo of shift+quote and just quote but obviously it was the shift key being repeated 3 times in rapid sucsession regardless of what other key is pressed. – GeoffCoope Jul 02 '12 at 22:44
Hold down Command ⌘ and Shift ⇧, press Key H twice, you will see the slow-motion is turn off – bandw Sep 22 '12 at 12:15
This worked for me. I don't do iOS development, so I'm just curious: is this *feature* actually useful? – pdoherty926 Oct 17 '12 at 06:39
Definitely can be useful for troubleshooting to see your animations in slow-mo, but not very often. I keep getting this activated by mistake when I using the keyboard to simulate a press of the home button. It's very annoying! Is there a way to prevent it from going into slow-mo mode? – beev Oct 17 '12 at 16:17
even more annoying, is that it can be turned on for the springboard and turned off for your app ... – Lescai Ionel Mar 26 '13 at 14:59
@Undo: Noooooo anything but the arrow icon :( – BoltClock Jun 07 '13 at 19:14
@BoltClock New Apple keyboards don't have the arrow icon - it might have been confusing :) – Undo Jun 07 '13 at 19:15
@Undo: Oh, that's fair. Even my white MacBook from 2010 lacks the icon. – BoltClock Jun 07 '13 at 19:16
nd i was reseting my simulator again and again :D – Kunal Gupta Sep 13 '16 at 14:56
use save my life bro. I tried restart the simulator, restart the xcode and even update the xcode :D – jayellos Nov 06 '17 at 01:11
Sure was nice of them to use the same hotkey for opening a new Xcode or browser tab, allowing me to turn this on by accident and assume that Apple just shipped a simulator bug that they didn't feel like fixing. – bugloaf Jan 14 '19 at 21:30
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As of XCode 11 this is no longer the shortcut, I cant seam to find if there is one at all. – Vladimir Amiorkov Feb 28 '20 at 11:27

score 44 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 12 '12 at 19:28

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Just figured this out:

You can toggle slow-motion animations on and off by pressing Shift three times in succession while the iOS Simulator is in focus.

answered Jan 12 '12 at 19:28

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No wonder, I had no idea how this was getting turned on sometimes. – Chris Wagner May 11 '12 at 23:02
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It also triggers if you hold Shift and press Cmd twice. – Zhang May 21 '12 at 06:52
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Wow, this is probably the dumbest, most unintuitive, 'why is this happening?' keystroke I've ever come acrossed. Apparently I hit the shift key a lot because I seem to accidentally toggle this (incredibly useful when I actually want it) feature constantly. – tyler Mar 06 '13 at 19:53

score 27 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 19 '15 at 17:50

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In the simulator at the top bar, go to Debug

Slow Animations and check it off or on.

Nothing to it.

answered Oct 19 '15 at 17:50

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`⌘`+`T` doesn't seem to be a shortcut for me. But the debug option did the trick! – Nickofthyme Oct 20 '19 at 01:23

Chris Chen · Answer 4 · 2012-11-08T02:34:53.453

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because there's no home button in the iPad simulator since iOS 5.0, we need a key combination (shift+command+h), which may activate slow motion. This glitch keeps happening to me, and quite annoying.

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answered Mar 31 '12 at 15:22

Chris Chen

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I hate this too! I wish there was a way to turn off slow animations forever. – atroutt Feb 12 '13 at 03:38
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Oh, yeah. Command-Shift-h. That's what's doing it. I knew I wasn't hitting the shift key three times. Thanks! – Dave Batton Aug 01 '13 at 22:31
It's actually just Command-Shift. If you hit them simultaneously, then it toggles slow animations. Very annoying. – shawkinaw Aug 10 '13 at 19:02
it is happening to me all the time, when I press CMD-Shift-H to press the Home button. Especially annoying since the home button does not show up on my simulator due to my super shallow iMac screen – Paul Bruneau Jan 02 '14 at 19:31

porglezomp · Answer 5 · 2016-03-13T15:52:49.327

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I ran into this same problem, and it seems that now the shortcut is ⌘+T to toggle it on any app that you're running. If you're on the home screen it should toggle all of the base OS animation speeds.

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score 7 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 14 '19 at 09:58

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In Xcode 11, the shortcut `command + T` didn't work for me.

To solve it:

Open simulator
Click on the debug menu
deselect "Slow Animations" from the menu.
Done

answered Nov 14 '19 at 09:58

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The shortcut in Xcode 11 has been removed, but the feature is still usable through the debug menu at the top – Mostafa ElShazly Jan 25 '20 at 12:07

score 4 · Answer 7 · answered May 14 '13 at 15:53

One reason this keeps happening to me is I use a VNC viewer to remotely work on my Mac mini, and it defaults to sending repeated keypresses whenever any key (including shift) is held down.

So even though "I" am not pressing shift multiple times, if I use the physical keyboard to enter text, then just holding shift down long enough to type a few letters results in the Mac seeing it multiple times and toggling the slow animations.

One work around is to not use the physical keyboard, but instead always "type" using the mouse to select letters on the simulators pop-up keyboard.

score 4 · Answer 8 · edited Jun 01 '18 at 13:35

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When simulator is open, simulator window show 6 commands including file, edit, hardware, debug, window and help.

Just click on Debug and the first position is stop animation window + T command is use for it.

If the slow animation is checked then simply unchecked it.

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score 2 · Answer 9 · answered Jul 21 '14 at 21:11

I couldn't fix it with triple shift, or triple home.

Could not fix via Debug->Toggle Slow Animation either.

Instead, you can reset the whole damn thing: iOS Simulator -> Reset Content and Settings.

Note that I had 2 problems.. slow motion inside the app (which was toggled by the debug->toggle menu) and slow motion when I switch between apps, aka "everything". I was only able to fix the global slow mo by resetting.

score 1 · Answer 10 · answered May 11 '12 at 22:14

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On 5.1 it can be toggled by hitting Shift twice, just like we do double-click on mouse.

answered May 11 '12 at 22:14

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actually, it's three times. See below. – Flaviu Jun 14 '12 at 00:44
@Flaviu, it worked for by hitting Shift twice. I verified it again. – Aniruddh Jun 16 '12 at 13:15
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Silly iOS dev tools. Mine definitely only works if you hit it three times. oh well. – Flaviu Jun 17 '12 at 15:12

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Sep 24 '19 at 05:14

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The shortcut as of Xcode 10.3 is Command ⌘+T. This toggles it between on and off, so to turn it off just punch that combination. And run your project again.

answered Sep 24 '19 at 05:14

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score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Apr 18 '22 at 04:25

Here is the shortest way to close the slow animation in Simulator!

Step 1: Open the Simulator.

Step 2: On the left top of the window you'll find Debug in some of the options.

Step 3: Under Devices, you'll see an option ( Slow Animations ) is checked, Just Uncheck it !!

Done . :]

Simulator slow-motion animations are now on?

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In Xcode 11, the shortcut `command + T` didn't work for me.

To solve it:

Linked

Simulator slow-motion animations are now on?

12 Answers12

In Xcode 11, the shortcut command + T didn't work for me.

To solve it:

Linked

In Xcode 11, the shortcut `command + T` didn't work for me.